CABA Information Series

IS-2003-27: Connecting Legacy Devices on the Home Network: The Challenges of Connectivity

At present the vast majority of revenues in the home networking industry are very much centered on the data networking, and we are not likely to see mass-market revenues generated by multimedia network solutions over the short-term (the next 18 months, for example). This is the basic premise of this white paper submitted by Parks Associates which describes in some detail the reasons that their research has shown that consumers aren’t adopting digital home technologies as quickly as the industry would like.